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“I guess you could say it was an a**hole factor”

“What I tried to explain to them was, it didn’t have anything to do with your voting record, a scorecard, your work across the street or anything else. It had to do with your ability to work within the system and to try to work. And to be, I guess, constructive in things. And I said, ‘I guess you could say it was an asshole factor,’” Westmoreland said. “Now I wasn’t calling any member in particular an asshole, I was just trying to describe an environment where some people that you’re trying to work with, they just don’t want to work within the system.”

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When did believing and actually trying to promote conservative values become acting like an a**hole?

Shtetl G on December 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM

If it makes one an a$$hole to refuse to cooperate with America hating leftists like 0bama, Reid and Pelosi, then I’ll support the a$$hole every time.

In fact, it would be great if these “a$$holes” split off from the RINO party and created their own party. Call it the A$$hole Party if you will. Their symbol can be the chocolate starfish for all I care. I would vote straight A$$hole party ticket every time.

Let me see if I understand this – the House leadership told some members that they lost out on promotions & positions BECAUSE they are a$$holes who don’t work well with others?

And the House leadership thinks that these same people are now going to be inclined to get in line? Man I’d be inclined to make sure I went along with what my voting district wanted regardless of what the GOP leadership wanted. If they thought they couldn’t count on me before I’d make sure they knew they couldn’t now.

It isn’t the job of Congressmen to “get along” with the dipsh#ts in the leadership. Congressmen are bound to serve their constiutents.

Westmoreland is an azz. He needs to be stripped of all committee assignments in the new Congress along with the Weeping Boner being relegated to the sidelines until he finally decides to do the right thing and leave the House.